PROGRAM

 

This year's 2D OR NOT 2D Animation Festival is a highly charged one-day event. The festival opens around midday on December 5th 2009 and will continue until late that evening. Two shows in the afternoon will feature work entered into the GOLDEN PENCIL AWARDS competition, as well as a presentation of NINA PALEY's acclaimed movie, SITA SINGS THE BLUES. Following the film presentation the GOLDEN PENCIL AWARDS ceremony will take place, screening all the award-winning films and presenting the awards to all filmmakers who are able to attend. The awards ceremony will also announce the recipient of the coveted ROY E. DISNEY AWARD. Following the awards ceremony will be an exclusive Northwest premiers screening of the exciting award-winning animated movie SECRET OF KELLS, to presented by the film's director and art director, TOMM MOORE and ROSS STEWART.

 

01.45 Festival OPENING.

01.50 Competition screening ONE (70 mins).

Films include:-
Alpha Beta Complex
Real Estate
The Story of Walls
Sparky
We Are All Here
NEC – Make It Happen
Brick-a-Brac
The Missing Sock
Heartstrings
Shadow of a Doubt
Topi
Wings & Oars
The Sheep on the Roof
The Mouse that Soared
Yellow Sticky Notes

03.00 15 minute BREAK.*

03.15 SITA SINGS THE BLUES movie screening (80 mins).

04.25 15 minute BREAK.*

04.40 Competition screening TWO (70 mins).

Films include:-
Higher Education
The Not So Great Eugene Green
The Thing in the Distance
The Fence Underneath Us
Pups of Liberty
The Terrible Think of Alpha 9
Lifeline
The Incident At Tower 37
Light Headed

05.50 1-hour FOOD/DINNER BREAK.*

07.00 Awards presentation and winning screenings (70 mins).
The festival awards “Golden Pencil Awards” to the winners of each category and “Merit Certificates” of honorable runners up. The “Roy E. Disney Award” is a non competitive award presented to the person or organization that the Animaticus Foundation feels has made a significant contribution to animation. This year there will be additional “DigiPen Golden Pencil Awards” to the students who have made the best junior, senior and traditionally animated films since the BFA program in Production Animation began.

08.20 15 minute BREAK.*

08.35 SECRET OF KELLS introduction & movie screening (till 10.00 pm).

10.00 FESTIVAL CLOSE.

 

* Note: For drinks and snacks there is a cafe just opposite the theater, within the Pacific Science Center complex. This will remain open until 6.00 pm. There is also a soda machine within the theater lobby. For more comprehensive cooked meals, there is a food and drink mall a short walk away from the theater, just outside the Pacific Science Center complex. (There is also a Starbucks there too!)